The Zapatista Triumph: the Strength of Weakness

Envio Journal

For 16 days in the year 2001, 23 EZLN comandantes—4 of them women— plus Subcomandante Marcos traveled through the cities and towns of 12 states representing ten million indigenous Mexicans. From its initial planning through to its culminating events, the march of those who are “the color of the earth,” have created a new political scenario in the country.